NBA FINALS: HEAT VS. NUGGETS

June 8, 2023

Max Strus

Miami Heat

Practice Day

Q. I apologize for bringing up a non-basketball question. Big soccer news yesterday in the city with Messi coming to Inter Miami. How big a soccer fan are you? Some big-time players also here watching last night.

MAX STRUS: To be honest, I don't really watch it that much. I don't know a lot about soccer. I know who Messi is. Pretty cool to have him in our city. Can't wait to meet him, if he comes to a game.

Q. It seemed like last night they made an adjustment to take away as many open three-point looks. What did they do differently to clean that area of the game up?

MAX STRUS: I don't know. I think we got good looks again. But it wasn't about shooting. It was everything else. They just beat us in every aspect of the game.

Q. When you look back at the film, what did you notice?

MAX STRUS: They just beat us in every aspect. Loose balls, rebounds. They just out-played us.

Q. When a team like Denver has that kind of size advantage and you have to play a seven-game series against them, how do you recover when they've got so much size?

MAX STRUS: Some good sleep, rest. Been doing this all year.